Show TONO OF TilE THE CHURCH Georgians Ask Russia to Keep the Promises Made Ago TitUs March 24 The Georgians have presented the viceroy Vice Viceroy roy of the Caucasus with a demand for forthe forthe the autonomy of theIr church When the kIngdom of Georgia whose heroic people the banner of Christian Christianity ity in the mountains of the Caucasus fOr centurIes against the hosts of the prophet became utterly exhausted by continual Wars with the Turks and ac accepted the rule of Russia In 1801 a treaty was wa thae that Russia should respect the Georgian kings roe rec recognize the u character of the church grant the GeorgIans immunity from Russian military conscription tion and not interfere with theIr lan Ian language guage schools etc The Georgian monarch however was immediately suppressed The people powerlesS to resist and one by one the political guaranteed dis disappeared disappeared appeared The church alone with a Georg an continued as a na national Institution untIl after the Russo Turkish War when It also succumbed to the process of beIng Jow over by a RussIan and red by the synod at St Petersburg |